Sunday, July 8, 2012

Pedestal Table for a Large Entry

We think that this was a former card table...it's an odd height and comes with 4 chairs.

Before:

Now before I go further, I have to address the awfulness of my recent "before" photos. I cannot get my point and shoot camera to have any focus. If anyone has any ideas, let me know...I haven't dropped it, etc. I think it's DOA, but maybe not?

So here is the after. I used oil based primer, a neutral white, distressing and then used Jacobean stain by Minwax to glaze.

And one with the unfinished chair

I'm super happy with how it turned out and I think it'd look amazing in a large entry!

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I love the table "after". Wish it could be in my dining room. Since it can't, and I've been thinking about rehab'ing my own table, I have to say your results are very inspiring ... and it looks like that's your goal for your blog, so congrats! That table has a high-end swedish design feel to me, so wonderful. I'm following, you've got great ideas.

I just realized that every time you say you finished something in "Jacobean"...I've been thinking you were talking about Jacobean wax (Fiddes) but here you said Minwax glaze/stain? :-( Now I'm confused and worried that everything that I thought was accomplished with the wax, was actually a glaze/stain? But yet I know you use Fiddes? BTW I FINALLY GOT MY OWN!!! My stepmom knew how much I wanted to try the wax so she ordered it online and showed up at my house last night with it! I thought of you! Lol! Thank you for all of your inspiration!

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Over the course of the past 6 months, I've become obsessed with finding thrifty treasures at Goodwill, garage sales, estate sales.....even a curbside every now and then. I have become so inspired by other bloggers, that I decided to start my own blog. I hope to inspire readers like you to get out there, get your thrift on and rehab some furniture of your own! Happy painting!